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Word: indo-european (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of or related to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European tongues.
  • Of or related to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called ''Proto-Indo-European'' and abbreviated ''PIE''.
  • Of or related to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.

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Noun:

  • A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of Western Eurasia.

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Proper noun:

  • A major language family which includes many of the languages between Europe and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
  • Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.

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